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Friday, July 13, 2018

Northern Group Seeks Probe, Prosecution Of PDP, Others For Forgeries

The issues surrounding the coalition of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
and 38 other parties to oust President Muhammadu Buhari from office,
yesterday, took a different dimension as the Northern Alternative Forum,
NAF, called on security agencies to investigate allegations of
fraudulently inclusion of names of some political parties in the MoU.

The
group called for the probe and prosecution of key parties in the
opposition coalition, including R-APC and nPDP over the alarm raised by
the People’s Democratic Movement, PDM, Accord Party, AP, and other
parties that their names were mischievously included in the MoU to
deceive Nigerians.Chairman of NAF, Mallam Gidado Ibrahim, who
made the call while speaking to journalists at the Nnamdi Azikiwe
International Airport, Abuja, on arrival from the United Kingdom
yesterday, insisted the leadership of PDP and the Coalition of Unity
Political Parties, CUPP, must be probed.

He said: “Politics is a
game of numbers and the PDP, knowing full well that there are gullible
Nigerians that can be hoodwinked into believing that they are still the
majority, deemed it fit that the only way it could garner support is to
forge signatures of political parties to fake a mega coalition against
President Buhari and APC.”

“Forgery is a criminal activity and we
members of the Northern Alternative Forum have resolved that this
allegation of impersonation and forgery won’t go unpunished. So, we have
resolved to draw the attention of security agencies to it. We have
asked our lawyers to petition the DG SSS and the IGP, to investigate the
PDP, the R-APC and other key actors in the charade called CUPP.”

for
a credible candidate other than him may turn out to be a wild goose
chase. No politician from the Northern region has so far shown strong
political will to change the economic and social fortunes of this
country”.

On why the group is insisting on the Buhari presidency
in 2019, Ibrahim said, “Neither the ruling APC nor the opposition PDP
can boast of a political figure with the will-power to govern Nigeria
with its current complexities. The search in PDP is quite herculean for
them and they are now resorting to fraud.

“ We urge Nigerians to
be wary of the antics of PDP and its co-political travellers so as not
to allow them wield the country back to the era of monumental corruption
like what we saw in the 16 years of PDP misrule”.

On the spate
of killings in the country, the NAF chairman decried the massacre in
Plateau, Adamawa, Sokoto and Taraba States, even as he accused those
saying the president is shielding killer herdsmen of attempting to
destroy the goodwill President Buhari enjoys among the Nigerian populace
in order to install another corrupt regime.

“Those who think
they can sabotage the Buhari administration through malicious
allegations shall soon take their own tea with salt. It is very
disappointing and disturbing to see people with bad records in
leadership taking Nigerians for a ride. Sadly for them, their campaign
of calumny against the president has failed woefully because Nigerians
can read between the lines”, Ibrahim stated.

On the federal
government N10 billion fund due to be released for victims of Plateau
killings who have been displaced from their ancestral homes in the
State, Ibrahim urged the presidency to ensure that the administrative
office of the president handles the disbursement of the funds to make
sure that the real victims of the attacks are ones to benefit from the
money.

He drew the presidency’s attention to the fact that it is
not only the Plateau residents that are victims, as motorists from
neighbouring communities, including members of the APC who were
returning from the party’s national convention in Abuja were also
attacked, with many of them injured.